John Melbye
- Sep 10
- 2 min
The Problem-Solving Dilemma
When trying to implement a culture change or a lifestyle change or any kind of a change, you need to be intentional.
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John Melbye
- Jul 8
- 2 min
Safety Stock - a misleading solution
You return home and open the fridge door to put the eggs away. That’s when you realize that you still have six eggs.
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John Melbye
- May 16
- 3 min
Season Three, Episode Ten
Sometimes Supply Chain feels harder than Mission Impossible. Is five seconds really enough warning prior to something self-destructing?
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John Melbye
- Apr 15
- 2 min
Season Three, Episode Nine
Employee Satisfaction Index. What if we could measure the work enjoyment level of our employees?
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John Melbye
- Apr 8
- 4 min
Season Three, Episode Eight
MRP telling you that you should have ordered parts a week ago is not sufficient (or funny anymore).
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John Melbye
- Mar 26
- 2 min
Season Three, Episode Seven, Chapter Two
“And then the data we feed into that long chain of precision is the opposite of precise. Or maybe more accurately - it’s Precisely Wrong.”
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John Melbye
- Mar 22
- 3 min
Season Three, Episode Seven
“Something about focusing on our capabilities, and tying our operational strategies to the corporate vision, wasn’t it?
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John Melbye
- Mar 1
- 2 min
Season Three, Episode Five
Instead of using the interview process to explain about the details of the expected job performance, we can do better.
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John Melbye
- Feb 15
- 2 min
Season Three, Episode Four
Here’s my challenge question to you. What do we use in our lives that hasn’t appreciably changed in 20 to 50 years?
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John Melbye
- Feb 10
- 3 min
Season Three, Episode Three
Side note: When you compensate by increasing the safety stock level, it doesn’t make this problem go away. It makes it worse.
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John Melbye
- Feb 8
- 2 min
Season Three, Episode Two
So, as we slowly spin into chaos, we have to finally admit that trying to use a tool based on precision and exactness creates a challenge...
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John Melbye
- Jan 18
- 3 min
Season Three, Episode One
Breakfast Epiphanies... How does your company set business goals?
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John Melbye
- Dec 20, 2020
- 4 min
Season Two, Episode Ten
The Holy Grails of Supply Chain Management What are the things that, if we could find them, would make Supply Chain Management a whole...
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John Melbye
- Nov 2, 2020
- 3 min
Season Two, Episode Nine and a Half
Complexity and Precision – Part Two In an already complex world, and the ever-changing interwoven relationships and connections, we must...
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John Melbye
- Nov 2, 2020
- 3 min
Season Two, Episode Nine
Complexity and Precision – Part One In an already complex world, and the ever-changing interwoven relationships and connections, we must...
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John Melbye
- Oct 5, 2020
- 3 min
Season Two, Episode Eight
Mr. Tone was attempting to achieve excellence, even though mediocrity would have been sufficient.
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John Melbye
- Oct 3, 2020
- 2 min
Season Two, Episode Seven
A funny thing happened on the way to discovering the Lead Time Dear Customer, During our phone conversation yesterday, when you asked me...
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John Melbye
- Aug 22, 2020
- 3 min
Season Two, Episode Six
The Next Evolution of Material Requirements Planning For years now, there has been a new methodology called Demand Driven Material...
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John Melbye
- Jul 27, 2020
- 2 min
Season Two, Episode Five
Visibility, but not the usual. Years ago, at one of our APICS meetings, we had a meteorologist from a local television station as our...
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John Melbye
- Jun 29, 2020
- 2 min
Season Two, Episode Four
Find the right road I dislike using a flathead screwdriver. Hard to hit the target, hard to hold position and with every twist I must...
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John Melbye
- May 6, 2020
- 3 min
Season Two, Episode Three
Metric Wars – Beginner Level Once again, I arrived at work to find that we are out of a raw material. Not the same raw material as last...
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John Melbye
- Mar 28, 2020
- 4 min
Season Two, Episode Two
BRIDGE THE GAP One of the most well-known awareness campaigns in the world is London’s “Mind the Gap” campaign designed to raise...
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John Melbye
- Mar 28, 2020
- 3 min
Season Two, Episode One
Uncommon Sense Does managing your supply chain today feel like a game of Whack-a-Mole? Wait for the problem to surface and then work as...
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John Melbye
- Nov 24, 2019
- 2 min
Season One, Episode Nine
Supply Chain Complexity It may be common knowledge among Supply Chain Professionals, but I wonder if everyone else in most companies...
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John Melbye
- Nov 24, 2019
- 2 min
Season One, Episode Eight
Does everyone understand why MRP doesn’t work today? Let’s look at an example of one MRP issue. An order arrives for 20 pieces of part...
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John Melbye
- Nov 24, 2019
- 2 min
Season One, Episode Seven
Steps to Supply Chain Sanity and Success First, recognize that Inventory is your leverage point. Having the right inventory in the right...
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John Melbye
- Nov 24, 2019
- 3 min
Season One, Episode Six
How is it possible that you can’t see my point of view? It doesn’t matter if you’re in upper management or deep in the trenches, neither...
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John Melbye
- Nov 24, 2019
- 2 min
Season One, Episode Five
What is the training strategy of your company? What’s that? Is there no strategy? How many of you think your company has no comprehensive...
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John Melbye
- Nov 24, 2019
- 3 min
Season One, Episode Four
Do the Safety Stock Dance. Have you ever wondered how some bit of knowledge becomes common knowledge? Especially when it’s later...
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John Melbye
- Feb 24, 2019
- 2 min
Season One, Episode Three
What about regular, common-sense, average Intelligence? The world is abuzz with speculation about the coming effects of Artificial...
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John Melbye
- Feb 3, 2019
- 2 min
Season One, Episode Two
Have you ever travelled? Stupid question, of course you have. It starts with planning and scheduling, doesn't it? Deciding the dates to...
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John Melbye
- Feb 3, 2019
- 2 min
Season One, Episode One
Where it all began. What is it that makes something a Supply Chain? Is it simply viewpoint? Everywhere I look I see supply chain. The...
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